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Travelling Chronicles: News and Newspapers from the Early Modern Period to th…
Travelling Chronicles presents fourteen episodes in the history of news, written by some of the leading scholars in the rapidly developing fields of news and newspaper studies. Ranging across eastern and western Europe and beyond, the chapters look back to the early modern period and into the eighteenth century to consider how the news of the past was gathered and spread, how news outlets gaine…
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- 9789004362871
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- 408 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Library of the Written Word, Volume: 66 Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World, Volume: 66
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Literary Cultures and Public Opinion in the Low Countries, 1450-1650
In the early modern Low Countries, literary culture functioned on several levels simultaneously: it provided learning, pleasure, and entertainment while also shaping public debate. From a ditty in Dutch sung in the streets to a funeral poem in Latin composed to be read for or by intimate friends, from a play performed for a prince to a comedy written for pupils – literary texts and performanc…
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- 978-90-04-20111-8
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- x, 324 pp.
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- Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume: 197
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Lire l’Histoire générale des Antilles de J.-B. Du Tertre : Exotisme et é…
Cette étude propose d’examiner les ramifications historiques de l’exotisme à partir d’une lecture critique de l’Histoire générale des Antilles (1654/1667-71) écrite par le missionnaire dominicain, Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre. En procédant d’une analyse littéraire, notre étude suggère une reconfiguration de l’exotisme basée à la fois sur la théorisation contemporaine et sur l…
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- 978-90-04-43496-7
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- viii, 210 pp.
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- Francopolyphonies, Volume: 31
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Lifelong Religion as Habitus : Religious Practice among Displaced Karelian Or…
In this book, Helena Kupari examines the lived religion of Finnish, evacuee Karelian Orthodox women through an innovative reading and application of Pierre Bourdieu’s practice theory. After the Second World War, Finland ceded most of its Karelian territories to the Soviet Union. Over 400,000 Finns, including two thirds of the Finnish Orthodox Christians, lost their homes. This book traces …
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- 978-90-04-32674-3
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- viii, 200 pp.
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- Numen Book Series, Volume: 153
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Law and Language in the Middle Ages
Law and Language in the Middle Ages investigates the encounter between law and legal practice from the linguistic perspective. The essays explore how legal language expresses and advances power relations, along with the ways in which the language of law legitimates power. The wide geographical and chronological scope showcases how power, legitimacy and language interact, moving the discussion b…
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- 978-90-04-37576-5
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- 328 pp.
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- Medieval Law and Its Practice, Volume: 25
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L'Académie de Lausanne entre Humanisme et Réforme (ca. 1537-1560)
The Lausanne Academy was the first Protestant Academy in a French-speaking territory, created twenty years before the one in Geneva. In the 1540’s, the Lausanne Academy developed a new model for higher education that influenced the entire Calvinist world. Far from forming only pastors, it attracted the sons of Swiss and European Protestant elites through its advanced trilingual education (Lat…
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- 978-90-04-21073-8
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- 628 pp.
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- Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Volume: 41
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Kurdish Studies Archive : Vol. 2 No. 1 2014
Kurdish Studies Archive publishes the content of volumes 1 to 10 of Kurdish Studies. This interdisciplinary and peer-reviewed journal was dedicated to publishing high-quality research and scholarship. Since 2023 the journal has been continued as the new Kurdish Studies Journal, published by Brill, and focuses on research, scholarship, and debates in the field of Kurdish studies in a multidiscip…
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- 978-90-04-70653-8
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Tradition, Transmission, Transformation = Proceedings of Two Conferences on P…
This volume is the outcome of two conferences held at the University of Oklahoma in 1992 and 1993 which dealt with issues of transmission and subsequent cultural transformations that occurred in the premodern histories of mathematics and science. Some twenty contributors explore transmission from a variety of perspectives, including the role of language and other facets of culture in the trans…
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- 9789004625747
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- 591 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Collection de Travaux de l'Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences, Volume: 37
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Karel van Mander and his Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting : Firs…
Written by the poet-painter Karel van Mander, who finished it in June 1603, the Grondt der edel, vry schilderconst (Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting) was the first systematic treatise on schilderconst (the art of painting / picturing) to be published in Dutch (Haarlem: Paschier van Wes[t]busch, 1604). This English-language edition of the Grondt, accompanied by an introductory monog…
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- 978-90-04-52307-4
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- cloth with dustjacket, 484 pages, 33 full-color illustrations
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- Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, Volume: 62
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Karbala in the Taʿziyeh Episode, Shiʿi Devotional Drama in Iran
“I am not Shemr, this is not a dagger, nor is this Karbala,” recites the arch-antagonist as a taʿziyeh performance begins. Verisimilitude is not the endeavour; this is a devotional offering that stirs lament for the the Shiʿi martyrs by representing events crucial to sacred history. But what does that retelling entail? Through study of four of its main episodes—from their long inter-fem…
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- 978-90-04-71614-8
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- xii, 260 pp., incl. 11 fc illus.
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- Studies on Performing Arts & Literature of the Islamicate World, Volume: 15
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